"I do remember Justin [Guarini] and I having the conversation before, and I was like, 'I don't want to win, I don't want to win', because we found out we had to do a movie," Clarkson told EW.

"He really wanted to do a movie. And I really didn't want to do a movie.

"I was like, 'It would be really super cool if I got second and you got first, because the winner has to do the movie and the second one doesn't.'"

Obviously, things didn't work out as planned for Kelly and she won the series with over nine million votes, leading her on to starring in the not-so-hit movie From Justin to Kelly – which Justin Guarini ended up starring in anyway.

Nonetheless, during the interview, she did concede that winning the series offered her a unique entrance into the music industry.

"I got to showcase all these different sides of me," she added. "Artists never get the opportunity to do that the first time out the gate."